The true believer

South African writer and civil rights champion Nadine Gordimer died in Johannesburg today. She was 90. Gordimer — whose novels and short stories so compellingly bridged the experiences of divided whites and blacks during apartheid that some were banned for years as threats to the regime — was a Nobel laureate, winner of the Booker Prize and a brave, brave woman. Here’s Margaret Atwood’s appreciation in The Guardian.